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Job 33

New American Standard Bible 2020

Elihu Claims to Speak for God

1“However, please 1hear my speech, Job, And listen to all my words.2Behold now, I open my mouth, My tongue in my 2mouth speaks.3My words are from the integrity of my heart, And my lips speak 3knowledge sincerely.4The 4Spirit of God has made me, And the 5breath of 6the Almighty gives me life.57Refute me if you can; Line up against me, take your stand.6Behold, I belong to God, like you; I too have been 8formed out of the 9clay.7Behold, 10no fear of me should terrify you, Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.

8“You have in fact spoken 11while I listened, And I heard the sound of your words:9‘I am 12pure, 13without wrongdoing; I am innocent and there 14is no guilt in me.10Behold, He 15invents 16criticisms against me; He 17counts me as His enemy.11He 18puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.’12Behold, let me respond to you, 19you are not right in this, For God is greater than mankind.

13“Why do you 20complain to Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?14Indeed 21God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.15In a 22dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,16Then 23He opens the ears of people, And horrifies them with warnings,17So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, And 24keep a man from pride;18He 25keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the 26spear.

19“A person is also rebuked by 27pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,20So that his life 28loathes bread, And his soul, food 29that he should crave.21His 30flesh wastes away from sight, And his 31bones, which were not seen, stick out.22Then 32his soul comes near to the pit, And his life to those who bring death.

23“If there is an 33interceding angel for him, One out of a thousand, To remind a person of what is 34right for him,24And he is gracious to him, and says, ‘Free him from 35going down to the pit, I have found a 36ransom’;25Let his flesh become fresher than in youth, Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;26Then he will 37pray to God, and He will accept him, So that 38he may see His face with joy, And He will restore His righteousness to that person.27He will sing to people and say, ‘I 39have sinned and perverted what is right, And it is not 40proper for me.28He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, And my life will 41see the light.’

29“Behold, God does 42all these things for a man two or three times,30To 43bring back his soul from the pit, So that he may be enlightened with the light of life.31Pay attention, Job, listen to me; Keep silent, and let me speak.32Then if 44you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I would take pleasure in justifying you.33If not, 45listen to me; Keep silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Notes

  1. 1. Job 33:1 Job 13:6 ↩
  2. 2. Job 33:2 Lit palate ↩
  3. 3. Job 33:3 Job 6:28; 27:4; 36:4 ↩
  4. 4. Job 33:4 Gen 2:7; Job 10:3; 32:8 ↩
  5. 5. Job 33:4 Job 27:3 ↩
  6. 6. Job 33:4 Heb Shaddai ↩
  7. 7. Job 33:5 Job 33:32 ↩
  8. 8. Job 33:6 Lit cut out of ↩
  9. 9. Job 33:6 Job 4:19 ↩
  10. 10. Job 33:7 Job 13:21 ↩
  11. 11. Job 33:8 Lit in my ears ↩
  12. 12. Job 33:9 Job 9:21; 10:7; 13:18; 16:17 ↩
  13. 13. Job 33:9 Job 7:21; 13:23; 14:17 ↩
  14. 14. Job 33:9 Job 10:14 ↩
  15. 15. Job 33:10 Lit finds ↩
  16. 16. Job 33:10 Or complaints ↩
  17. 17. Job 33:10 Job 13:24 ↩
  18. 18. Job 33:11 Job 13:27 ↩
  19. 19. Job 33:12 Eccl 7:20 ↩
  20. 20. Job 33:13 Job 40:2; Is 45:9 ↩
  21. 21. Job 33:14 Job 33:29; 40:5; Ps 62:11 ↩
  22. 22. Job 33:15 Job 4:12-17; 33:15-18 ↩
  23. 23. Job 33:16 Job 36:10, 15 ↩
  24. 24. Job 33:17 Lit hide ↩
  25. 25. Job 33:18 Job 33:22, 24, 28, 30 ↩
  26. 26. Job 33:18 Job 15:22 ↩
  27. 27. Job 33:19 Job 30:17 ↩
  28. 28. Job 33:20 Job 3:24; 6:7; Ps 107:18 ↩
  29. 29. Job 33:20 Lit of craving ↩
  30. 30. Job 33:21 Job 16:8 ↩
  31. 31. Job 33:21 Job 19:20; Ps 22:17; 102:5 ↩
  32. 32. Job 33:22 Job 33:18, 28 ↩
  33. 33. Job 33:23 Gen 40:8 ↩
  34. 34. Job 33:23 Lit his uprightness ↩
  35. 35. Job 33:24 Job 33:18, 28; Is 38:17 ↩
  36. 36. Job 33:24 Job 36:18; Ps 49:7 ↩
  37. 37. Job 33:26 Job 22:27; 34:28; Ps 50:14, 15 ↩
  38. 38. Job 33:26 Job 22:26 ↩
  39. 39. Job 33:27 2 Sam 12:13; Luke 15:21 ↩
  40. 40. Job 33:27 Rom 6:21 ↩
  41. 41. Job 33:28 Job 22:28 ↩
  42. 42. Job 33:29 Eph 1:11; Phil 2:13 ↩
  43. 43. Job 33:30 Job 33:18; Zech 9:11 ↩
  44. 44. Job 33:32 Lit there are words ↩
  45. 45. Job 33:33 Ps 34:11 ↩

Commentaries on Job 33

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